Re: Asians have hijacked Japanese study

jim_breen_at_hotmail.com
Date: 11/01/04 

Date: 1 Nov 2004 09:41:16 GMT

Apud Winston <none@hotmail.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
>Back in High School, when a group of about 20 of us went to Japan and
>did homestay, most of the students were Asian.
>Think of the poor Japanese high school students. They must have been
>excited when they heard a group of AUSTRALIANS were visiting the school.

>So much so that they ran up to our bus and mobbed us when we arrived!!
>IMAGINE THEIR DISSAPOINTMENT WHEN ABOUT 15 ASIANS AND ABOUT 5 WHITIES
>GOT OFF THE BUS.

What happened to the Australians?

>They were looking forward to the gaijin visiting.

Uh-huh. So the "Asians" weren't gaijin. Interesting.....

>It is not fair to
>provide them with asian students.

Yep. Everyone in Japan knows that Australia is populated entirely
by fair-haired blue-eyed people of European descent. It's quite
unfair to confront them with contrary evidence. Clearly your
high school should have had a skin-colour prerequisite for being
allowed on the trip. Just like Sith Effrika used to apply to
visiting sporting teams. 

-- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
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